Volume 1: A stone strikes a thousand waves, the world surrounds Li Daosheng Chapter 56: People are always helpless
After Xiao Muchu left, Li Si lay there for a while. The water and the sky in the distance merged into one color, but he was no longer sleepy.
He didn't like to meddle in other people's family affairs, but from what Xiao Muchu said, there should be some big conflicts between him and Banjiexian, and perhaps he owed them mother and son a lot.
Oh, what a jerk this guy is. He knows he is a gangster, so why bother to waste other people's time?
Li Si put his hands behind his head, hung one leg on the side of the mast, looked up and watched the clouds flying by in the sky.
However, in fact, he was a little envious of Banjiexian.
Because he could at least go back and take a look, but he can't anymore.
The river was quiet, with only the sound of waves. On the mast, Li Si hummed a little tune. It was called a tune, but it was just a tune, not a ballad. He didn't know what the tune was called or where it came from. He just heard it many times from someone and gradually learned to hum it.
Under the mast, a boatman was working at the bow. He heard the humming from the mast, looked up, and saw the man in white half lying there. He waved his hand and shouted loudly.
"Hey, the person up there, be careful, don't fall down!"
Li Si glanced down, smiled faintly and responded.
"knew!"
After saying that, he stood up and flew away.
He should go find someone, lest anyone else be left with any regrets.
The boatman watched Li Si fly away and showed some envy on his face. It turned out that he was a man of the world, free and easy, and really happy.
After thinking about it, he lowered his head and went back to his work. It would be best if he could earn more today so that he could buy candy for his daughter when he got home.
But are people in the martial arts world really worthy of envy? Are people in this world free and easy, or are they forced to do things against their will? No one can tell.
…
Just as Xiao Muchu thought, Li Si was able to find Banjiexian . Of course, his method was not to look for him one by one, but Banjiexian had left Li Si a way to find him.
Although Banjiexian has been wandering around the world for many years, he is not completely without a place to stay.
What almost no one knew was that he owned a restaurant, and when he had nothing to do, he would often stay in that restaurant, sometimes working as an accountant, sometimes as a waiter, sometimes as a handyman, and sometimes as a cook.
Because he would change his face every time he went there, no one knew that the restaurant was his.
Even the people in the restaurant didn't know.
They were just hired to do the job and were not allowed to ask about what was going on in the building.
The manager only knew that this restaurant belonged to a mysterious and eccentric wealthy businessman who had never shown up, but would send some strange people to work in the building every year, one at a time, and each of them would leave for no reason after working for a period of time.
He didn't understand the reason and didn't dare to ask.
I guess he would never have guessed that those people who were sent to do work by the "rich businessman" every year were actually the same person, the so-called "rich businessman" himself.
This restaurant is called Qianjialou.
The person who runs the building is a man of many faces.
When Li Si arrived at Qianjialou, it was already October.
He didn't know whether Banjiexian would be here at this time, but he could wait, because for an idle person like him, the thing that he had the most was time.
It was quite bustling when entering the building. Just like every other restaurant, the guests here were of all kinds. They were like a small microcosm of the world, with everything that should be there.
Li Si found a seat in the corner and sat down. He ordered a pot of the cheapest wine and drank it while listening silently to the sounds in the building.
Suddenly, he heard a peculiar sound of footsteps coming towards him.
Li Si raised his eyebrows. It seemed that he was lucky. Before he went to look for someone, this person had already come to him.
He raised his eyes and saw a woman standing in front of him.
The woman had a graceful figure and was wearing a red dress with a loose belt, revealing her fair neck and shoulders, causing the drinkers around her to unconsciously glance at her from the side.
Looking at Li Si, the woman smiled with her hands covering her mouth, then sat down and spoke.
"I was wondering who would be so stingy that you only ordered a pot of wine when you came to the restaurant. So it turns out you are that kind of person."
As she spoke, she leaned against the table, stretched out her slender white fingers, pressed them on Li Si's wine jug, and fiddled with it gently.
Li Si ignored the woman's teasing and took the wine jug back from "her" hand.
"It's not my fault. You sell your wine so expensively. You asked me to pay three taels of silver for this small pot. You are really mean."
"Hey." The woman raised her finger and shook it, saying with a smile.
"You are wrong. In business, it's all about willingness to fight and willingness to suffer. I sell at a high price, but others are willing to buy. How can that be considered as being unscrupulous?"
"That's nonsense." Li Si shook his head and poured himself more wine.
The woman proudly adjusted the red hairpin on her head.
"Haha, no matter what word it is, as long as it makes sense, it's a good word. But it's rare for you to come to me. Is there something wrong? Let me make it clear first, small news is three hundred taels, big news is three thousand taels. Considering our relationship, I'm giving you a discount."
Li Si did not directly state the purpose of his visit, but first poured himself a glass of wine.
He waited until he put the wine jug back on the table before asking.
"Do you know Xiao Muchu?"
The woman's hand that was fixing her hairpin paused slightly, and the expression on her face became a little stiff.
She didn't expect Li Si to suddenly mention this name.
"Did he ask you to come to me?" the woman asked.
"Hmm." Li Si took the wine glass and took a sip.
"He said his mother died and asked you to go back and take a look."
There was a silence at the table in the corner, which was in stark contrast to the noise in the hall.
Li Si did not look at the expression of the woman in front of him. He only knew that she sat there in silence for a long time.
When she put her hands down, she said absentmindedly.
“I see…”
Yes, so many years have passed.
Li Si glanced at her, holding the wine glass, and let out a breath.
"I think you should go back and take a look."
The woman lowered her head, nodded weakly, and spoke in a low voice.
"I know. I know."
…
This "woman" is naturally a half-immortal.
He really knows a lot of things.
He knew that a person like him shouldn't have involved others. He also knew that because of him, a woman had been lonely all her life. He also knew that he was a bastard, and it was reasonable for Xiao Muchu to hate him for the rest of his life.
But he had no choice but to do this, because he had already lost control of himself.
He met Xiao Muchu's mother in a small county town.
He was staying there temporarily to collect information and got to know the girl by chance.
Then after getting drunk again, he and the girl formed a cause and effect relationship.
He was very ashamed and told the girl everything about himself, but the girl said she didn't care and was willing to live with him.
During that time, Banjiexian really wanted to live in seclusion in that small county town and spend the rest of his life.
Unfortunately, it didn't take long before some traces he left behind due to his carelessness were discovered, and some gangsters who wanted to find him found him near the county town .
He dodged it, but he knew it wasn't the first time and it wouldn't be the last.
It is impossible for him to change his face every day while living with his wife and children, but if he does not change his face, he will not be able to hide for long.
He has information about too many people, and too many people want to find him.
There are still many tracking experts in the world, and he has seen all kinds of tracking methods. Once his true face is seen by others, it will be difficult for him to hide anymore.
What he feared most was that this would implicate Mu Qiu, who had just been born, and his mother.
He woke up several times in the night because he dreamed of his enemies coming to his house. He didn't dare to take the risk, not at all.
So he left.
He left behind some money and some martial arts knowledge, and left the county town under the cover of darkness on a snowy night.
But it’s not that he hasn’t been back, it’s just that every time he goes back, he looks like a stranger.
Standing far away, looking at the people in the small house.
Watching the children practicing martial arts in the yard, watching the women sitting by the door weaving or making shoes, then leaving some silver and going home quietly.
Later, when Xiao Muchu founded Fengyu Tower, he continued to support him secretly and asked others to pass on many underworld secrets to him, helping him establish a reputation.
It was not until Xiao Muchu's Fengyu Tower became bigger that he felt relieved and stopped disturbing their lives.
He thought that everything would be fine like this, and after some time, with his personality, he would be able to let go of these things.
But it was not until he heard the news of that person's death that he realized that he had never let go at all.
